Dr. Catrien Reichart
Catrien Reichart is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and, as a senior researcher, is interested in family studies on the prevention of disorders in high risk offspring, and in treatment studies.
Currently, she is participating in a multicentre prevention trial in high risk offspring of depressed and anxious patients: “Preventing mood and anxiety disorders in youth”, funded by ZonMw.
The main aims of her PhD thesis (Being a child of a bipolar parent, 2005) were to determine early symptoms and prospective course of symptoms among offspring of parents with bipolar mood disorders, to evaluate a diagnostic instrument for the prediction of mood disorders, and to determine the consequences on family and social functioning of being a child of parents with mood disorders. A fourth measurement (12 years follow-up) of this cohort is currently being done at UMCU (2009/2010).
She is currently involved in:
The preparation of NESKID, a prospective cohort study, concerning the children of the NESDA sample (Netherland Study of Depression and Anxiety, funded by ZonMw). The aim of this study is to follow the children of the 2981 respondents of NESDA. A grant application is currently in preparation in cooperation with the VUMC and the UMCG.
ARIADNE (Adolescents at Risk for Anxiety and Depression): a prospective study (10 years) concerning youth at risk (children of parents with a mood or anxiety disorder). A number of papers concerning the risk factors for the development of anxiety and mood disorders (as part of NESDA) are currently in preparation for this study.
Dr. Catrien Reichart is also Assistant Head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency training
Other functions
Since 1998 Psychotherapy Supervisor VKJP (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Association)
Since 2001 Member of the Education Committee VKJP
Since 2008 Chairman of the Board of the Division Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the NVvP (Afdeling Kinder- en Jeugdpsychiatrie van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychiatrie)
Since 2009 Member of the Editorial Board Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie
Memberships / scientific associations
Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychiatrie (NVvP)
Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychotherapie (NVP)
Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kinder- en Jeugdpsychotherapie (VKJP)
For information about the performance of a science internship, mail to this address: wetenschapsstagekjp@curium.nl